Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 10
Then the high chief of Hilo accepted Kamehameha as his king and sent his sons to aid Kamehameha in conquering the island Maui.
Who acts: high chief · What happens: accept, send, aid, conquer · To what, where: Kamehameha, sons, island
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high chief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 accepted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chief | amod |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accepted | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Hilo | case |
| 6 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | nmod |
| 7 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 accepted | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 king | nmod:poss |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accepted | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 accepted | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sent | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 aid | mark |
| 17 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | advcl |
| 18 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 aid | obj |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 conquering | mark |
| 20 | conquering | conquer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 aid | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 island | det |
| 22 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 conquering | obj |
| 23 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 island | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the high chief of Hilo | Kamehameha | then | as chief's king | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kamehameha=Theme as king=Attribute | ||
| 2 | send | past | the high chief of Hilo not said here | chief's sons | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | aid | to-infinitive | the high chief of Hilo not said here | Kamehameha | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kamehameha=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | conquer | gerund | the high chief of Hilo not said here | the island | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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